• Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) are one of several rodents used in animal testing. Syrian hamsters are used to model human medical conditions including...
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    The golden hamster or Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is a rodent belonging to the hamster subfamily, Cricetinae. Their natural geographical range...
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    United States, where Syrian hamsters became a common pet and laboratory animal. Comparative studies of domestic and wild Syrian hamsters have shown reduced...
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    the Syrian hamster began in the late 1700s when naturalists cataloged the Syrian hamster, also known as Mesocricetus auratus or the golden hamster. In...
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    Syrian hamster breeding is selective breeding on Syrian hamsters. The practice of breeding requires an understanding of care for the Syrian hamster, knowledge...
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  • Syrian hamster behavior refers to the ethology of the Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Syrian hamsters have a sleep cycle that lasts about 10 to...
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    wood or safe materials like plexi . Laboratory hamsters, commonly known as laboratory Syrian hamsters, are housed in pens designed for scientific use...
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    surrounding nations. The Turkish hamster, first catalogued in 1878, is a fairly close relative of the Syrian or golden hamster, though far less is known about...
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    with running wheels for the squirrels, just like a hamster cage. Choice tests with Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) have shown that they prefer...
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    genus of rodents in the hamster subfamily Cricetinae—a division of the larger family Cricetidae—is a lineage of small hamsters native to central Asia that...
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    Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli) is a species of hamster in the genus Phodopus. It was given its common name by Oldfield Thomas in honor of...
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  • found in Syrian hamsters that can be transmitted from one hamster to another. It was first described in 1945. Transmission from hamster to hamster can be...
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    known for collecting a litter of Syrian hamsters on an expedition to Aleppo, Syria. The hamsters were bred as laboratory animals in Jerusalem, but some...
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    "Syrian Hamster Weight - Hamster Central". www.hamstercentral.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23. "Dwarf Hamster Care: Roborovski, Russian & Chinese Hamster"....
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    the Syrian Desert have been referred to separately such as the Palmyrene desert around Palmyra, and the Homs desert. The eastern section of the Syrian Desert...
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  • Billie and Debbie were Syrian hamsters who were United States presidential pets in the care of Caroline Kennedy during the presidency of her father John...
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    fields and corn cultures. Closely related to the well-known Syrian hamster, the Romanian hamster is a species known for its nocturnal or crepuscular behavior...
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    Experimental Use of Syrian Hamsters". In Suckow, Mark A.; Stevens, Karla A.; Wilson, Ronald P. (eds.). The laboratory rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, and other rodents...
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    Gulf Hamstery (category Golden hamster)
    his hamsters, he learned to breed them and founded Marsh Enterprises and the Gulf Hamstery, which promoted Syrian hamsters as pets, for laboratory use...
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  • whose natural host is the hamster. It was originally described in 1967 by Arnold Graffi as a cause of epithelioma in Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus)...
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  • the Syrian hamster can be transmitted from one Syrian hamster to another through various mechanisms. It has been seen to spread within a laboratory population...
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  • species, Helicobacter cholecystus sp. nov., from the gallbladders of Syrian hamsters with cholangiofibrosis and centrilobular pancreatitis". J Clin Microbiol...
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  • of the Syrian hamster with particular reference to the processes of formation and discharge of the secretory vacuoles: HARDERIAN GLAND OF HAMSTER". The...
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    three Syrian hamsters brought back from Syria and successfully bred them as laboratory animals. This led to the domestication of the Syrian hamster. In...
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    2007, and Herwig et al. 2009 in Siberian hamsters, Revel et al. 2006 and Yasuo et al. 2007 in Syrian hamsters, Yasuo et al. 2007 and Ross et al. 2011 in...
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    mouse tumors. Some of the tumors observed were angiomatous sarcomas in Syrian hamsters, sarcomas in rats, and mesenchymal nodules in rabbits. Eddy and Stewart...
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  • Toxicology testing Testing on Frogs Invertebrates Primates Rabbits Rodents Syrian hamsters Issues Animal rights Animal welfare Animals (Scientific Procedures)...
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  • excess recombinantly produced normally folded prions, often a truncated Syrian Hamster protein, amino acids 90-231. Samples suspected of containing misfolded...
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    European hamsters failed because they were already resistant to leishmaniasis; instead he got a scientist in Jerusalem to send him some Syrian hamsters to test...
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    (September 1991). "Proteinase-resistant prion protein accumulation in Syrian hamster brain correlates with regional pathology and scrapie infectivity". Neurology...
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